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The resilience of rule compliance in a polarized society

Atella-Suri, Dominik; Gächter, Simon; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2026

Democratic societies depend on citizens following rules even when those rules are set by political opponents. Rising polarization may threaten this behavior. We test the impact of polarization on rule compliance in the United States across three pre-registered waves (May and November 2024; April 2025; n...

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AI versus humans as authority figures : evidence from a rule-compliance experiment

Atella-Suri, Dominik; Gächter, Simon; Kube, Sebastian - 2026

AI-driven systems are rapidly moving from decision support to directing human behavior through rules, recommendations, and compliance requests. This shift expands everyday human-AI interaction and raises the possibility that AI may function as an authority figure. However, the behavioral...

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Solving normative conflicts in collective action by promoting redistribution

Gangadharan, Lata; Krutaj, Jona; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2026

Heterogeneous returns from contributions to a public good create a normative conflict between equality and efficiency. In a laboratory experiment, we proposed an indicative menu of contribution principles including one featuring a decentralized redistribution mechanism ensuring earnings equality...

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Adriani, Fabrizio; Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; … - 2026 - [Revised version of 2024-01]

We investigate the impact of rising inequality on social instability through a novel multi-period laboratory experiment. In each period, members of two groups are randomly matched to play a battle of the sexes game, in which payoffs are either zero for both or positive but unequal. At the...

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Enforcing cooperation in finitely repeated team production : theory and experiments

Falvey, Rodney E.; Lane, Tom; Luckraz, Shravan; Yang, Shuo - 2026

This paper reexamines the Holmström's moral hazard in teams for environments where team production problems are repeated a finite number of times. Motivated by the observation that many real-world team interactions are naturally repeated while much of the literature emphasizes static...

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Common incentives, unequal gains : global evidence from public-goods experiments

Gächter, Simon; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Thöni, Christian - 2026

Can common institutions produce different gains from cooperation across culturally diverse environments? We address this question using standardized repeated public-goods experiments, with and without punishment, in 43 diverse countries (n = 3, 876). The design permits direct comparison of...

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Ambiguity in multi-stage games : uncertainty about the opponent's strategic behaviour

Eichberger, Jürgen; Grant, Simon; Kelsey, David - 2026

We propose Consistent-Planning Equilibrium under Ambiguity (CP-EUA), a solution concept for two-player multi-stage games with almost perfect information. Players evaluate continuation payoffs using a neo-additive representation centred on a behavioural-strategy theory of the opponent. The...

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Measuring creativity : associative thinking in semantic networks

Baader, Malte; Fischbacher, Urs; Starmer, Chris; … - 2025

Identifying creative ability and its determinants is crucial in understanding artistic and innovative achievements. Previous work has shown that performance across established creativity tasks does not correlate within participants. A potential reason for this finding is that most creativity...

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Marital arrangement and spousal cooperation

Afzal, Uzma; Barr, Abigail; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2025

We present three lab-in-the-field studies investigating systematic heterogeneity in cooperative decision-making across spouses in arranged and love-matched marriages in Pakistan, where the former is the tradition and the latter is associated with modernization. In Study 1, we engaged married...

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Intermediaries and information aggregation in fragmented markets : experimental evidence

Choo, Lawrence; Kaplan, Todd R.; Zhou, Xiaoyu - 2025

Markets have the ability to aggregate information even under difficult conditions. What is not known is whether fragmented markets can also achieve information aggregation when differently-informed traders do not participate in the same market. We experimentally test this by extending the...

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